Anyone care to guess what animal in Alaska statistically is the most dangerous? Hemingway never had to go mano a mano with a bull moose in rut trying to charge a Coast Guard helicopter- BTDT. Try it sometime with the other deadly creatures; mosquitos and no -see- um blackflies doing kamikaze runs at your eyes while lining up express sights on a .375 <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />. A Kodiak is merely a Mc Donalds supersized mainland brownie which in turn is a extra large grizz. Statistically, black bears are far more dangerous. Grizz will stop attacks( usually) if you play dead. Sometimes by the time they do you nearly are. An aggressive black bear will continue. The standard advise it to hold your ground. Running initiates the prey response. Try it with my pet cat sometime <img src="/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />Most attacks are from suprise encounters, a mother and cubs or old, young or injured individuals suffering malnutrition. Bears, like another predatory mammal are highly individual in personality. It's that adapatbility that insures the specie survival. Bart was a very socialised and just plain neat bear with highly skilled people in the Suesse family.